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Having problems with your Dell Dimension 2400 PC Desktop ?

I had two bad PC's One would not power up. Thought power supply. Took out identical power supply from the other bad PC. Still would not power up. I fiqured bad mother board. Put the power supply back into the other PC. This PC would not find the Cd/DVD drive. Swapped out the CD/DVD drive unit. Still will not find the drive. I think this box also has a bad mother board. What do you think????

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Ensure the power supply at the wall is good, ensure all plugs of power supply are plugged into Mobo, especially the CPU pwr supply if it has one. You really need to know 100% if the power supply you are using is good. If so and absolutely no boot. HDD activity then I would first suspect ram then CPU then mobo. Simply remove / replace ram, sometimes fixes them.

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